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RPK or Raja Petra Kamaruddin was released today and declared as inappropriately or wrongfully detained. It isn't clear whether they'll rearrest him and cook up other excuses for him to spend Hari Raya Haji back there.

Today, too, Anwar Ibrahim was understood to have been able to convince the Judge to hear his case in the same Court as initially instituted.

These two events should be good business for the Malaysian dailies as Malaysians who can't access the Internet would need to know what's happening and how these events will unfold. It is about their country. At the moment, the BN government only allows their corporate and individual supporters to run newspapers and whose reports are suspect, at least in the way they are presented.

Malaysians need to know about their country - their country is on Trial now with these two cases.

Obama - Solemn assurances

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"...And all those watching tonight from beyond our shores;

From Parliaments, Palaces, to those who are huddled around areas radios in the forgotten corners of the world;

Our story is singular but our destiny is shared.

A new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

To those who tear the world down, we will defeat you.

To those who seek peace and security, we support you.

And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright, tonight we prove once more, that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms and the scale of our wealth but from the enduring power of our ideals - democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope!..."

Black Man at the White House

Out with the Old

In with Change

It's just not about race. It's about the new American Soul

Pixes : "Spiegel" Online

“It’s been a long time coming. But tonight, because of what we did on this date, in this election, change has come to America.”

"Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive."

The New York Times

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Flood in the North

Pix : The Borneo Post

15 years ago, I was up north in Limbang helping MARA talk to small Bumiputra contractors. The Market in the picture was not built yet. Hardly any news come out of the place. It has now, with shortage of vegetables! Limbang people are basically Bruneian Malaysians. They speak Brunei Malay with a very strong accent.

Limbang faces vegetable shortage

By Philip Kiew
November 4, 2008 The Borneo Post

Limbang, Sarawak: Floods which hit several parts of this district recently- at least for four days - have destroyed vegetable gardens leaving consumers here short of vegetables, especially leafy ones.
Hawkers at Limbang market (Tamu) are claiming they are facing a shortage in vegetable supply now.

The shortage in supply has forced prices to shoot up and the distributors have to source for supply from neighbouring Sabahto make up for the shortfall during the monsoon season which wreaked havoc on crops.

According to a local Fatimah Raub, 60, she first noticed the lack of leafy vegetables during her shopping trip recently when only long beans were on sale instead of the usual display of various types of leafy vegetables at the Tamu.

“I was caught by surprise when I went around the market for the first time after my village, Kampung Merambut, was hit by flood for days,” she said.

She suspected the recent floods could have wiped out vegetable supply to the Tamu. Fatimah was resigned to picking up non-leafy vegetables during her shoppingtrip, expecting the situation to return to normal soon.

Limbang town was cut off by floods on Oct 28 when. flood waters submerged the Pan Borueo Trunk Road near Batu Danau bridge, and travellers were caught on both sides of the flooded 100 metre-stretch.

The raging floods even swept one vehicle off the road and those inside were lucky to escape alive as only the roof of the 4WD was visible at its height.

The Pan Borneo Trunk Road was submerged under a metre of flood waters, about 31 km from Limbang, Sunday leaving thousands stranded on both sides.

The locals said the floods which occurred at 4.30 pm on Oct 27 made the road impassable to many vehicles leaving hundreds of them stranded on either side of the stretch.

View of Limbang when not under flood. | Pix by Google

Vows : Claptrap, Humbug and Bunkum

It isn't reported clearly why Valuecap ploughed into the market just before the Iraq War with good money after bad, apparently. That was 2001, during Mahathir's time. Whatever they put in there is now gone, as the papers were non-tradeable and maybe not even good enough for toilet paper.

And Najib said about that was about "injecting" funds into the market? How does that help "rakyat"? That doesn't sound like helping the country but cover-up bad decisions Mahathir made during his premiership.

State investment company Valuecap Sdn Bhd owes its three shareholders RM5.1 billion, which is due to be repaid in February 2009.

This debt, in the form of interest-bearing unsecured bonds, raises questions over plans for the Employees Provident Fund to lend RM5 billion to Valuecap to invest in the stock market.

In March 2003, Valuecap borrowed RM5.1 billion from shareholders Khazanah, Kumpulan Wang Amanah Pencen and Permodalan Nasional Bhd to invest in the stock market. At the time, world stock markets were bracing for a looming war in Iraq which followed on the September 2001 attacks on the US.

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When there is an economic crisis or disaster, wealth is not destroyed. It is MERELY transfered!

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Vows galore

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Najib vows to repay trust placed in him

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 - Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who won the Umno presidency unopposed today, has expressed his resolve to shoulder the trust placed in him by the Umno grassroots.

The Umno deputy president and deputy prime minister said he believed the nominations reflected the confidence of the grassroots in the transition plan he had formulated with Prime Minister and Umno president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

“I resolve to shoulder this trust and responsibility to the best of my ability to tackle all the challenges faced by Umno and Barisan Nasional.

“I am thankful for and touched by the trust which has been translated into nominations by the 134 divisions signalling my victory unopposed as the president of Umno,” he said in his 1Malaysia.com.my website.

Najib said he hoped that the ongoing election process would proceed in a clean and orderly manner.

“Let’s work together to carry forward the noble struggle for the sake of religion, the people and nation,” he said. -

The MalaysianInsider